WDFW is laying off staffers for 29 positions, not filling many of 170 vacancies, shutting down a hatchery, closing a popular steelhead fishery next year and is being forced to let a predator ...

Mid- to late June 2025 sockeye, steelhead, Chinook, sturgeon, walleye and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Willamette below the falls.

GOOD SALMON YEAR . 2024 came in large and in charge when it came to many salmon runs, with new sockeye records set at Bonneville Dam (755,909) on the Columbia and Tumwater Dam (190,117) on the ...

UPDATE, 8:46 a.m., Sunday, March 2, 2025: On Friday, February 28, 2025, reporter Lexi Ryan of KPIC reported that Coquille Willdife Association studies done with ODFW “show that historically [dissolved ...

More details emerged this morning about "exceptionally low" elk calf survival rates in Washington's Blue Mountains, where it's increasingly clear cougars are taking a lion-sized bite out of the herd.

The mystery of why urban coho are dying before they can spawn is most strongly associated with Seattle. It’s where the condition was first seen (Longfellow Creek above the lower Duwamish) and where ...

Pikeminnow season will start early this year at three stations on the Columbia River. COLUMBIA GORGE NORTHERN PIKEMINNOW. (PIKEMINNOW.ORG) Managers at the Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery ...

A bill slated to drop in Olympia Wednesday morning would make WDFW’s director a political appointee again and turn the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission into an advisory panel.. WASHINGTON ...

American shad appear to have made themselves at home, their numbers are suddenly booming and they feed on the same stuff as young salmon do. Concerns and questions should be growing over the ...

A bill that would hike the cost of most Washington fishing and hunting licenses by 38 percent narrowly passed out of the Senate today. With a 25-24 roll-call vote, Substitute Senate Bill 5583 now ...

WDFW is detailing tentative 2025-26 Washington salmon fisheries, including bonus pinks in most inner Puget Sound fisheries, Skykomish summer Chinook, Skagit-Baker sockeye, ocean kings and coho, and ...

Washington lawmakers passed a bill reinstating the Columbia River endorsement to fish for salmon and steelhead this afternoon following amendments to it in the Senate and concurrence from the House.